Monks and monkeys dwell in temples and treetops. Clouded leopards creep through actual clouds that coil like bracelets around two giant stone "hands" pressed together in prayer.
Downtown Guiyang, Guizhou, holds "roadside concerts" that thousands of people attend free of charge every New Year's Eve. Revelers rang in 2025 with singing, dancing, lights and fireworks.
There's a folk saying in multiethnic southwestern China that goes: "Costume, a great philosophy of life, is a dialogue between the heart and the outside world and the soul that's worn on the body."
Wintertime in Guizhou province is a time and place where people move to the silent "song of ice and fire".
Beijing Normal University's original musical Today and Me was staged at the Lao She Theater in Beijing from Jan 16 to 18, paying tribute to China's normal school pioneers around 100 years back.
From the Monkey King who rides the clouds to a woman runner glittered in the morning glory, the works of Li Xiangqun, a sculptor of repute, have evoked in the audience collective memories, feelings and anticipation.
It was popular during the Song Dynasty (960-1279) to paint and write on paper fans. Despite the difficulty, artists managed to reproduce landscapes and poems on the folds, lending the fans a sense of romanticism and magnificence.
In a modest residential area in Ansai, a district of Yan'an city in Shaanxi province, an artist's hands dance across sheets of vibrant red paper. The rhythmic snip-snip-snip of her scissors fills the quiet atmosphere, creating intricate patterns that tell stories of ancient traditions, family tales and the ever-present beauty of rural China.
At a recent grand Spring Festival village evening gala in Chongqing's Yongchuan district on Jan 16, the audience was captivated by the Anren Bench Dragon Dance, a form of national intangible cultural heritage from Dazhou, Sichuan province.
Stamp collectors queued outside a themed post office in downtown Beijing on Wednesday morning for a stamped envelope issued by China Philately ahead of Chinese New Year.
All six upcoming films competing for the Spring Festival market unveiled behind-the-scenes stories during a promotional event hosted by the China Film Administration, the industry's top regulator, at the China National Film Museum on Wednesday.
Boonie Bears, an enduring animated franchise featuring the titular sibling creatures, will make a comeback on the domestic silver screen with its 11th installment, "Future Reborn".
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